Why Smoking Cigarettes is So Bad.
posted September 3, 2009 - 2:12am
2. As the tobacco industry increases in number and demand with it will increase slavery, and increase numbers of self inflicted illnesses caused by tobacco use and infinitely
3. Half the long term smoking population will fall to a smoking caused death. That means if you've smoked a very long time you have a 50% chance of it killing you. Thats pretty high odds.
4.One in five teens will start smoking, why? Because everyone else does it.
5. Hydrogen cyanide, one of the toxic byproducts present inside cigarettes was used in the war as a genocidal chemical agent.
6. Radioactive lead and polonium can both be found in a cigarette.
7. It is estimated that trillions of filters, filled with toxic chemical smoke make their way into our environment and are discarded as waist yearly.
8. Going along with number 7 it takes a filter over 18 months to 12 years to fully decompose.
9. Their is enough nicotine in 5 cigarettes to kill an adult if ingested whole.
10. Kids pick up smoking at the numbers of 3,000 a day in the U.S. and 80,000 a day worldwide.
11. 11.7% of deaths each year in Australia
12. The indirect cost of damages due to smoking and smoking company's rounds to about 6.6 billion dollars a year.
13. The survival rate of lung cancer is 14%.
14. Half of people diagnosed with lung cancer only live a year after diagnosis.
15. 4 out of every 5 people with lung cancer have it from indirect or direct smoking.
16. You have a 50% chance to not die from life long smoking. Those that fall on the 50% that will die from smoking 30% of YOU will die at middle age.
Article: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1426414/m...

Comments
yeooo
lol i hate cigs...
17.. Ya Breath ROCKS!!!
18..What is it really doing for you..??I mean really?You like to get "light headed"?
19..Not sure if its true but some have glass in the filters???
20..O this is a good one..You know your a smoker when........lol...you say you quit....and....you "only" smoke when your drinking...(i hear this all the time)..but....you drink alot or when you do drink you smoke up a whole pack like its nothing...
Yo that one about if you ingested 5 cigs it could kill you is wild..
good post !!
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